Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
 

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

by Anne LAMOTT

For most writers, the greatest challenge of spiritual writing is to keep it grounded in concrete language. The temptation is to wander off into the clouds of ethereal epiphanies, only to lose readers with woo-woo thinking and sacred-laced clichés. Thankfully, Anne Lamott (Operating Instructions, Crooked Little Heart) knows better. In this collection of essays, Lamott offers her trademark wit... (read more)

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I keep sticky tags and notes next to my reading chair for books like this one, in which I have marked passages, and made notes throughout. I first encountered Lamott making a presentation on C-Span II: Books several years ago. I thought she was one of the funniest people I had ever heard and since then have read her online commentaries on salonmagazine.com, and several of her books. This has been on my tbr list since published in 1999, and moved to my tbr pile this year when, thankfully, I...

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    griffith s said:

    I read this book during a difficult time in my life. It made me laugh, cry and smile to know that other people have made it through extremely difficult times. I love her sense of humor, her honesty and her determination to make it. What a great book.

    posted Thursday, November 29 2007
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